Main entry:

Bill, Max, 1908-1994.

Title & Author:

Form, function, beauty = gestalt / Max Bill ; translated by Pamela Johnston ; an introduction by Karin Gimmi.

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, 2010.

Description:

1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations, plans

Series:

Architecture words ; v. 5

Notes:
Introduction: On Bill -- Why I make jewellry from time to time -- My experience of product design -- The good form -- Beauty from function and as function -- A, B, C, D ... -- The basis and aim of aesthetics in the machine age -- Continuity and change -- Good formal design -- What is industrial design -- Definition of the term 'product form' -- Function and gestalt -- Managing our environment -- What is good about the good form -- May a heater be ... a heater? -- On expensive junk -- What I know about clocks -- Are European methods of environmental design universally applicable (in art, architecture, urban planning, product design)? -- Responsibility in design and information -- Sense without sense? -- Dreams of life on the dentist's chair -- Response to the International Design Centre in Berlin -- From functionalism to function -- The function of designed objects.

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ISBN:

9781907896378 (electronic bk.)
1907896376 (electronic bk.)
1902902858
9781902902852

Subject:

Bill, Max, 1908-1994 Criticism and interpretation.
Bill, Max, 1908-1994
Artists Switzerland.
Artistes Suisse.
Artists
Switzerland

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Johnston, Pamela.
Gimmi, Karin, 1959-
Architectural Association (Great Britain)
Architecture words ; v. 5.